Ancient Indian History Quiz 69 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Bhagavad Gita is the religious text for Buddhism

Correct Answer: A) FALSE.

2. India is part of what continent?

Correct Answer: A) Asia.

3. Landowners, bankers, and merchants; third highest caste.

Correct Answer: A) Vaishyasya.

4. A religion founded in ancient India by the religious teacher the Buddah

Correct Answer: A) Buddhism.

5. Which dynasty had the "golden age?"

Correct Answer: A) Gupta.

6. Which nation is NOT part of the Indian Subcontinent?

Correct Answer: D) China.

7. Asoka was history's first great ..... king

Correct Answer: B) Buddhist.

8. What is Brahman?

Correct Answer: A) The belief in one universal spirit.

9. Who believe in the Four Noble Truths?

Correct Answer: D) Buddhists.

10. Buddhists believe that by following this, people could end suffering.

Correct Answer: A) The Eightfold Path.

11. The story of Rama & Sita is a myth of this religion

Correct Answer: A) Hinduism.

12. Where did the early Harappan Civilization start?

Correct Answer: A) Indus River.

13. In 500 BCE, what language were the holy scriptures written in?

Correct Answer: D) Sanskrit.

14. Uses the caste system to place people in social groups

Correct Answer: A) Hinduism.

15. The founder of Buddhism is known as the Buddha which means BLANK.

Correct Answer: B) Enlightened One.

16. People who migrated from around the Caspian Sea to the Indus River Valley after the Harappan Civilization.

Correct Answer: C) Aryans.

17. During the Golden Age of the Gupta dynasty, Indian mathematicians contributed .....

Correct Answer: C) Zero.

18. The Dalit were .....

Correct Answer: A) The lowest caste, also called the "untouchables, " who had the worst jobs in the society.

19. King of Maurya Empire whose name means "without sorrow"

Correct Answer: B) Emperor Ashoka.

20. What is correct sequence of the Hindu life cycle?

Correct Answer: B) Life-death-rebirth.